Ergonomic Solutions for Retailers highlights how workers in grocery stores can reduce strains and sprains when moving materials from the delivery truck to the sales floor.
The association's 2009 survey of companies that kept return on investment data reported a 100 percent positive ROI on having an athletic trainer on site, and more than 90 percent of respondents reported employees' days away from work declined by 25 percent or more.
Nominees will be selected based on expertise in the field occupational safety and health, such as occupational medicine, occupational health nursing, industrial hygiene, toxicology, chemistry, safety and health education, ergonomics, epidemiology, biostatistics, and psychology.
Back injuries are one of the leading workers' compensation claims. Repetitive motion injuries account for hundreds of thousands of lost workdays every year.
The innovative approach features multiple speakers in quick succession on a variety of topic. They get five minutes each.
The resource will help them conduct posture assessments in the workplace.
The September conference will focus on wellness and total worker health.
Yant Award winner Karen Messing's lecture covered standing and sitting in the workplace and how examining genders can benefit ergonomists.
Orlando's spacious Orange County Convention Center welcomes ASSE's annual conference next month.
The Ergo Chair carries the parts and tools that a GM worker needs while assembling the interior of the Chevrolet Traverse, carrying the person through the side door and down the length of the vehicle if necessary.
The page offers information related to chronic diseases that accompany aging.
Thomas Fariello, acting commissioner of the city's Buildings Department, said all three 2013 fatalities resulted from lack of adequate fall protection.
"Our government has been seeking to make the case that good health and safety represents good business, and I think IOSH's initiative illustrates that very vividly," said Richard Bruton, Ireland's minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation.
We're still battling the #1 workplace injury.
Resources available on the site, www.osha.gov/hospitals, will dovetail with efforts hospitals already are making to prevent worker injuries from patient moving, slips and falls, needlesticks, and more.
Poorly designed gloves force workers to compensate for lack of support, thereby placing unnecessary stress on their muscles and joints.
A Christmas tree farm's safety program and a manufacturer's safety coordinator are profiled in the December/January issue of "Resource." And don't miss Administrator Michael Wood's column about the hierarchy of controls.
Five floors, three housing a total of 69 patient care units, will be added to the Mary Brigh East Building, the organization announced Dec. 2.
After a cougar killed an employee at a Portland animal sanctuary, concerns have been raised over the safety measures taken at the facility.
According to OSHA, 40 percent of all janitorial injuries involve eye irritations or burns; 36 percent are skin irritations or burns; and 12 percent are the result of breathing fumes.